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Purple Rain Live
1-1 Let's Go Crazy 5:53
1-2 Take Me With U 4:39
1-3 The Beautiful Ones 5:25
1-4 Computer Blue
Written-By – Nelson*, Fink*, Prince, Melvoin*
4:30
1-5 Darling Nikki 4:54
1-6 When Doves Cry 5:48
1-7 I Would Die 4 U 3:26
1-8 Baby I'm A Star 6:07
1-9 Purple Rain 6:35
1-10 17 Days
Written-By – Coleman*, Fink*, Prince, Melvoin*
5:25
1-11 Erotic City 8:04
TV Broadcasts
2-1 Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad? 3:42
2-2 Little Red Corvette 3:29
2-3 1999 3:51
2-4 Sign O The Times 5:12
2-5 Play In The Sunshine 4:06
2-6 The Christ 5:04
2-7 Electric Chair 4:12
2-8 Gett Off 6:32
2-9 The Most Beautiful Girl In The World 3:49
2-10 Now / Acknowledge Me 7:28
2-11 Love Sign 4:44
2-12 Peach 5:42
2-13 P Control 5:58
2-14 Starfish And Coffee
Written-By – Prince, Melvoin*
3:34
Free / Sweet Thing
Featuring [With] – Chaka Khan, Larry Graham
(5:42)
2-15a Free
Written By – Johnson, Morales, Rooney
2-15b Sweet Thing
Written-By – Khan*, Maiden*
2-16 Release Yourself
Featuring [With] – Chaka Khan, Larry Graham
Written By – Diggs, Fekaris, Perren, Smith
3:39
2-17 The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker 3:56
The Small Club Aftershow
3-1 Instrumental In G 13:22
3-2 D.M.S.R. 8:25
3-3 Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
Written-By – Strong*, Whitfield*
8:09
People Without (10:09)
3-4a People Without
3-4b Six
3-5 Housequake 5:22
Blues In C (8:19)
3-6a Blues In C
3-6b Down Home Blues
Written-By – Liggins*
3-6c Kansas City
Written-By – Leiber, Stoller*
3-6d Billie's Bounce
Written-By – Parker*
Cold Sweat (10:20)
3-7a Cold Sweat
Written-By – Brown*, Ellis*
3-7b Transmississippi Rap
Written-By – Prince
3-8 Forever In My Life 13:02
3-9 Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic 2:01
Track 2-10 is simply listed as 'Now', and the release does not mention the inclusion of 'Acknowledge Me'.
Track 2-15 incorrectly credits the writers for the Prince Markie Dee song 'Typical Reasons (Swing My Way)'.
Track 2-16, 'Release Yourself', incorrectly credits the writers for the Method Man song 'Release Yo' Delf'.
The release presents itself as a collection of live performances, however tracks 2-2, 2-3, 2-9 to 2-11 and 2-14 are audio from lip-synced performances, and are essentially studio versions. Track 2-14 is an unreleased studio version used in a sketch on the Muppets Tonight show.
Track 2-13 is in fact the actual studio version.
Tracks 1-1, 1-3 to 1-5, 1-7: The Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY, 1985
Track 1-2: The Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, 1990
Track 1-6: The Vicente Calderón Stadium, Madrid, 1990
Track 1-8: Grammy Awards, 1985 [incorrectly listed as 1998]
Track 1-9: American Music Awards, 1985
Tracks 1-10 & 1-11: First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, 1984
Track 2-1: American Bandstand, 1979
Tracks 2-2 & 2-3: Solid Gold, 1983
Track 2-4 & 2-5: MTV Video Music Awards, 1987
Track 2-6: Essence Awards, 1998 [incorrectly listed as 1988]
Track 2-7: Saturday Night Live, 1989
Track 2-8: MTV Video Music Awards, 1991
Tracks 2-9 to 2-11: Soul Train, 1994
Track 2-12: MTV European Music Awards, 1994
Track 2-13 is simply the studio version. It is incorrectly listed as being sourced from the VH1 Fashion Awards, 1995 (where a remix was lip-synced).
Track 2-14: Muppets Tonight, 1997
Tracks 2-15 & 2-16: Today Show, 1998
Track 2-17: Tonight Show, 2001
Disc 3: from a live FM broadcast recorded at Paar Van Troje, The Hague, Netherlands, 19th August 1988
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